
Hastings Library has a Local History Collection covering the history of Hastings and the Hastings District. There are reference items that can only be used in the library, as well as many items available in the lending collections.
For more information, please contact the Hastings District Libraries on +64 06 871 5000, or email at [email protected]
Hastings District Libraries has a number of locally produced local history-related books for sale. There are copies of each of the below available from each branch of our libraries. Just ask at the counter.
A History of Havelock North, from 1860 - 1962. Produced for the Havelock North Borough Council. $10.00
The History of Hastings and District. Printed in 2001. $20.00
The First Hundred Years - 1915 - 2015. Written by Michael Fowler. Printed 2016. $29.99
The History of a Village. Written by Matthew Wright. Printed in 1996. $15.00
Hawke's Bay has many memorials to those who died in conflicts during the 20th Century.
Hastings War Memorial Library was built as a memorial to those from the Hastings district who died in World War 2. Our Hall of Memories is a very special place.
In Civic Square we also have the Hastings Cenotaph, erected in memory of those who died in World War 1.
To commemorate those brave people who bought with their lives the freedom we enjoy today, library staff have compiled a list of Hastings District memorials and rolls of honour. We have also attempted to add their first names where possible.
This is a work in progress and we have more names to add. Please advise us of any changes that may need to be made.
"Let Those Who Come After
See To It That Their Names
Be Not Forgotten"
Both Hastings and Havelock North Libraries have Community Archives. These are available Monday to Friday only.
Material held includes books, journals, ephemera and a significant number of photos.
The Community Archives do not include Council records. These are held by the Hastings District Council Archives.
Our buildings have been built, fallen down (literally), moved, rebuilt and extended, to provide a much used community service in the heart of Hastings.
Library service was given by the Atheneum Society with a popular free reading room in Market Street.
The Hastings Borough Council takes over the Atheneum. A Carnegie grant for a free public library was received (6/10/1904).
A new two-storied red brick library in Market Street South was opened on 16/9/1907.
The old Hastings Library destroyed in the 1931 earthquake.
A temporary library was established in the municipal building.
After much controversy about what form a war memorial should take, it was finally decided this should be a new (free) library on Civic Square.
The original building on the present Civic Square site was built as a War Memorial Library and opened on 18 October 1959.
Restructuring as a result of the Council amalgamations was completed and the Havelock North Library joined the Hastings Library and Flaxmere Library to become the Hastings District Libraries.
The Hastings Library was extensively altered in 1993, with two new wings added plus a mezzanine floor.
This information is quoted from City of the Plains, by M. B. Boyd.
Local History
Archives - by appointment
Warren Street South
Hastings
Phone + 64 06 871 5000
Local History Archives - by appointment
Te Mata Road
Havelock North
Phone + 64 06 871 5000
Station Street
PO Box 940
Napier
Phone +64 06 835 6915
www.napierlibrary.co.nz
9 Hershell Street
PO Box 248
Napier
Phone 06 835 7781
www.mtghawkesbay.com
Recently launched, the Hawke's Bay Knowledge Bank "will be a living record of Hawke's Bay and its people. It combines a robust, secure and widely-compatible digital archive with a new generation of multimedia and social tools. We want to enrich our stored material with the knowledge of the community through user comments, tagging and sharing of information."
http://hb.knowledgebank.org.nz/
901 Omahu Road, Hastings, New Zealand
Hastings, Hawke's Bay 4120
10 Mulgrave Street
Thorndon
Wellington 6011
Phone +64 04 499 5595
http://archives.govt.nz
Located in the National Library of New Zealand
Corner Molesworth & Aitken Streets,
Wellington
Services for researchers can be found at the National Library of New Zealand's website:
http://natlib.govt.nz/researchers
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